Red Sox sweep Phillies; David Ortiz hits 497th career home run

“You know we’re all engaged every time he comes to the plate”, Lovullo said. Interleague finaleBoston’s final interleague game of the season is scheduled for 1:35 this afternoon.

It was all sunshine and farts on the other side, as Red Sox starter Eduardo Rodriguez could only bellow with laughter as the Phillies tried frantically to touch his baseball with their bats over the course of seven innings, managing just a single run while Ortiz, the DH picked his teeth with the bat boy in the Boston dugout.

It was the seventh win in 10 games for the Red Sox.

Red Sox manger Torey Luvullo announced yesterday that Dustin Pedroia could return to the Red Sox lineup as early as tomorrow. “Want happens inside of each outing is limited runs and total control of not just the fastball”. They’re 11-1-2 in their last 14 series against the Phillies. He gave up two hits and an earned run. The Phillies, who have allowed at least seven runs in four straight games and five of the last six, dropped to 23-48 on the road with Saturday’s 9-2 setback.

Smokey Joe Wood of the Red Sox, on his way to a 34-win season, beat Washington’s Walter Johnson 1-0 at Boston.

Phillies ninth. Ross Jr. pitching. The Phillies were unsuccessful the last time Eickhoff pitched. Ortiz homered to right on a 3-1 count, Bogaerts scored.

“I do take great pride in playing good defense because defense is effort”, Betts said. “He’s a good hitter and he’s going to do that with a pitch right there in that location”.

Heading into the weekend series with the Red Sox, Rupp was hitting exactly.250 but had just eight home runs. It was his 200th homer at Fenway Park and No. 497 for his career overall. Left fielder Rusney Castillo led off with a double but was thrown out trying to steal third with catcher Ryan Hanigan batting.

Ortiz got the Red Sox on the board with a two-run home run in the first inning. Eickhoff forced Ortiz to fly out deep center, which brought home Boston’s fourth run of the inning. They are 6-4 SU and flawless as the favorite (2-0) in their last 10 games. Sweeney grounded out, third baseman B.Holt to first baseman T.Shaw. Eickhoff allowed seven straight baserunners to open the bottom of the second and the Red Sox scored four times in the inning.

Phillies: RF Dominic Brown is sidelined with a concussion he sustained flipping over a wall in Wednesday’s loss to the New York Mets. Kelly had announced his return in dramatic fashion, becoming the first Sox pitcher to win 6 games in a month since 1999 Pedro Martinez who was basically flawless that season. Boston placed Hanley Ramirez on the 15-day DL with a sore right shoulder. On defensive indifference, O.Herrera to second. “Pretty solid.” Asher (0-2) put up zeroes in the first three innings before he was chased in the fourth and gave up eight hits over 3 2/3 innings in his first career start at Fenway and second overall.